Edit Data Chart Properties

For most chart types, you can enable or disable the legend and axes. In addition, you can decide if you want display a chart title or not.

To enable a legend, choose the option Show Legend (Figure 6, “Legend Options”).

Then, choose where you want to display the legend. Here, you have several options.

To disable the legend completely, choose the option None.

To display a vertical axis for the value, choose the option Vertical Axis (Value) and then switch the toggle button for Show Value Axis to On (Figure 7, “Enable And Reverse Vertical Axis” (1)).

To reverse the axis direction and place the horizontal axis above the chart instead of underneath, switch the toggle button for Reverse Axis Direction to On (Figure 7, “Enable And Reverse Vertical Axis” (2)).

You can also use this option if you have not enabled the vertical axis but the horizontal axis.

If you have enabled the vertical axis, you can make further changes to the axis.

You can set the number format, scale and text format.

To set the number format, expand the drop-down menu under Number Format and choose a format (Figure 8, “Number Format”).

To define your own custom format, choose the option Custom Number Format.

A dialog box opens.

In this dialog box, either choose a format from the list or type in a custom format you want to use (Figure 9, “Custom Number Format”).

A preview is displayed above the input field.

If you have finished, click on the button OK.

To set a scale, expand the drop-down menu under Scale and choose a value (Figure 10, “Scale”).

To set a text format, expand the drop-down menu under Text Format and choose a format (Figure 11, “Text Format”).

To define your own text format, choose the option Custom….

You can define the minimum and maximum value displayed on the axis. In addition, you define how big the steps between each displayed value should be (Figure 12, “Define Values And Step Size”).

Values are already entered automatically.

To change them, type in a new value into the input field.

To go back to the automatic value, click on the button Reset next to the input field.

For some chart types, you have the option to enable a second vertical axis. This axis then inserted on the right of the chart and also displays the values.

To enable this axis, choose the option Secondary Vertical Axis (Value) (Figure 13, “Enable Secondary Vertical Axis”) and then switch the toggle button for Show Value Axis to On.

To enable the horizontal axis for the categories, switch the toggle button for Horizontal Axis (Category) to On (Figure 14, “Enable Horizontal Axis for Category”).

The axis labels display the text that is added in the mini Excel.

For some chart types, you have the option to enable a second horizontal axis. This horizontal axis will then be used as a second value axis.

To enable the horizontal axis for values, switch the toggle button for Horizontal Value Axis to On (Figure 15, “Enable Horizontal Axis for Value”).

For some chart types such as bar charts, you have the same options for the horizontal value axis as for the vertical value axis.

If you want to display a chart title, switch the toggle button for Show Chart Title to On (Figure 16, “Enable Chart Title”).

The title will be displayed and you can edit the title text as required.

If you enable and disable the chart title again, your changes to the title text will be lost.

To remove the chart title, you can also select it and click on the button Remove (Figure 17, “Button Remove”).

In the last section of the properties menu, you can make general changes.

To make global changes to you charts regarding font size, scale and size, choose the option Apply to All empower Charts on Slide (Figure 20, “Apply Global Changes”).

Here, you can decide if you want to apply the current font size to all charts on the current slide (Figure 21, “Options for Global Changes”).

In addition, you can apply the scale and size for axes to all charts on the current slide (Figure 21, “Options for Global Changes”).

This function can be helpful to match charts that have breaks.

The matching to height orientates itself to the highest chart on the slide.

If possible, always apply the same scale and size to the chart which has the smallest scale, i.e. where a certain reference value (e.g. 100) is displayed the smallest.

If there are  multiple customizings for your company, you can switch between the customizings. To do so, choose the option Change Customizing (Figure 22, “Option Change Customizing”).

A dialog box opens.

Expand the drop-down menu and choose the customizing you want to use for this chart (Figure 23, “Choose Customizing”).

Then, click on the button OK.

If there is only one customizing for your company, the option Change Customizing is grayed out.

If you encounter any display issues in the chart, you can use the option Redraw Chart to reload the chart and its content (Figure 24, “Option Redraw Chart”).

Display issues should then be corrected automatically.

To reset colors and borders that you have been applied manually on data points to go back to the default customizing colors, choose the option Reset Point Colors and Borders (Figure 25, “Reset Point Formatting”).

For some charts, you can only reset the borders.

In addition to the settings mentioned above, you can enter the manual edit mode.

Manual edit mode should only be entered if you want to make final changes that cannot be made to an empower^® Chart. In manual edit mode, you can edit the chart and its components freely.

If you use manual edit mode and then leave it again, some formatting you have made in manual edit mode may be lost.